Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe were tooling around MySpace when we ran across a bulletin from Rich Tommaso about the upcoming graphic novel bio of legendary pitcher Satchel Paige. Yes, it was going to be delayed a year, but now Hyperion Books has decided to release James Sturm’s and Rich Tommaso’s “Satchel Paige Striking Out Jim [...]
Continue ReadingShare this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Don McPherson’s Eye on Comics review site posts his 2006 Glass Eye Awards. Interesting picks, like GRAY HORSES for best OGN. §The Dove: The Evolution Of Beauty has been making the rounds showing how makeup, lighting and a hell of a lot of Photoshop can make an ordinary woman a [...]
Continue ReadingShare this link on Facebook!TweetWe never had a chance to comment on PULLBOX, the new comics downloading site started by Devil’s Due’s Josh Blaylock. Basically, you pay a buck to download a comics. Devil’s Due, IDW and Jim Mahfood are making some of their comics available through it. Certainly it’s a ludicrously simple idea [...]
Continue ReadingShare this link on Facebook!TweetIf The Scotsman is to be believed, a graphic novel of Robert Louis Stevenson’s KIDNAPPED is all the rage, and it’s being given away free to encourage reading. IT is one of the best-loved stories to come out of Scotland. Kidnapped has captivated generations with its gripping tale of high drama [...]
Continue ReadingShare this link on Facebook!Tweet This unauthorized still from PIRATES OF THE CARIVBEAN 3 show Cap’n Jack Sparrow and his dad, played by Keith Richards cavorting with a little person. In a Rolling Stones t-shirt. Lame. The pic has been pulled down from several sites, but here ya go.
Continue ReadingShare this link on Facebook!Tweet First look at the Silver Surfer from the upcoming Fantastic Four movie, via USA Today With computer-generated imagery techniques similar to those used to create Gollum in The Lord of the Rings, the slippery Surfer, voiced by Doug Jones, “will look somewhere between gun metal and fluid metallics so you can see [...]
Continue ReadingShare this link on Facebook!Tweet Just because. This Filipinocomic based movie has gotten a good rating, and apparently that leads to savings! Thursday, ipina-review naman ang pelikula sa Cinema Evaluation Board (CEB) for a possible tax rebate. Sixteen board members reviewed the movie. Fourteen graded it an A, two gave it a B. Almost unanimously, Zsazsa Zaturnnah [...]
Continue ReadingShare this link on Facebook!Tweet Cartoon Brew points us to Screen Novelties News which has a harrowing tale of the restoration of the original Rankin/Bass puppets used to make RuDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER. The puppets were in bad shape, having been used as Christmas decorations/playthings for the last 30-odd years in the home of a former Rankin/Bass [...]
Continue ReadingShare this link on Facebook!Tweet Many catch up links today as we hit the road, and doubtless most of you already have as well.
Continue ReadingShare this link on Facebook!TweetBook Seven has a name. Tremble. UPDATE: As for what we know and theories about Book Seven, here from MuggleNet is a list of things that WILL happen in DEALTHLY HALLOWS: Character Information * We will find out something “incredibly important” about Lily Potter * We will [...]
Continue ReadingShare this link on Facebook!TweetWeb cartoon collectives are all the rage, and a new one has just launched with 12 of the best cartoonists around, who all happen to be…women. Women’s Work: a brand-new website for a brand-new collective of women who work in and around the visual and literary industries. Leigh Dragoon Shaenon Garrity Rachel Hartman Lea Hernandez Lisa Jonté Karen [...]
Continue ReadingShare this link on Facebook!TweetYou may have noticed that we had to take down our thoughts on 300 yesterday, due to…oh, stuff. It’s kind of cool because when you have to take stuff down you’re in the blogging elite. Anyway, it turns out we may be involved in some other V.V. exciting 300-related activities. More [...]
Continue ReadingShare this link on Facebook!TweetWhat? A book about comics we never heard of? Have we not been paying attention? In this case it’s Invaders From the North, a history of Canadian comics by John Bell. Hour, review the tome: Indeed, in addition to painting a picture of a rich and exciting Canadian comics scene in terms [...]
Continue ReadingShare this link on Facebook!TweetNow here’s a comic book we bet you haven’t heard of, but based on this still, wouldn’t you like to? It seems the Phillipines are about to be rocked by Zsa Zsa Zaturnnah, a film based on a comic by Carlos Vergara about a gay man who turns into a voluptuous [...]
Continue ReadingShare this link on Facebook!Tweet ringtones fundland Second-generation systems, started in 1991 in Finland, are all digital and include GSM, CDMA and TDMA. martin ricky ringtones , martin ricky ringtones driver, while talking on a cell phone, has response times of a driver in roughly the 40th percentile). ringtone feet tiger The first full internet service on ringtone [...]
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